Edward goldman



(No Model.)

E. GOLDMAN.

MITERED STAIR PAD.

Patented June 20, 1893.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD GOLDMAN, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ISIDORE LOIVENTHAL, OF SAME PLACE.

MITERED STAIR-PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 499,728, dated June 20, 1893. Application tiled January 26. 1893. Serial No. 459,906. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, EDWARD GOLDMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mitered Stair-Pads, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a new and useful stair pad, of peculiar shape, for use on mitered stairs, and also of a new method of man ufacturing said mitered stair pads so as to adapt them for use on stairs of different angles.

A mitered stair is divided into steps of forty-five, thirty, or twenty-two-and-a-half degrees, and my invention is intended for the purpose of providing a mitered pad suitable to lit a step of any given angle.

In the drawings, Figure l represents the mitered pad as used. Fig. 2 represents a initered pad with a double row of stitching across the long side which -permits a piece to be cut off so as to change the angle of the initer. Fig. -3 represents a pad in the shape of a parallelogram with a number of double lines of stitching across it. This pad is connected to an adjoining one in a continuous strip.

The pads which constitute the subject of my invention are made of any suitable fibrous material, such as hair, cotton, or shavings, and

inclosed in casings of paper or fabric. The

fibrous material is corded or otherwise separated into a sheet of suitable thickness, and then covered with the covering by sewing or gluing A pad constructed in this way is soft and covered in such a manner as to resist the character of wear to which it is likely to be subjected when used as a stair pad to be placed beneath a carpet to prevent wear.

Fig. l shows the mitered pad as a new article of manufacture.

In Fig. 2 the double lines of stitching o-a, and b-b, are designed, as will be seen, for the purpose of enabling the user of the pad to cut a piece from the inclined edge at a desired angle, between two lines of stitching, so as to change the angle of the inclined side and still leave a line of stitching on the edge of the pad. This form of pad is advantageous because it can be manufactured and sold as a separate piece.

Fig. 3 shows a more economical method of manufacturing the pads by forming them in along continuous strip separated into rectangular-shaped pieces by cross lines of double stitching which are at right angles to the sides, such as c-c. A number of diagonal lines of double stitching are then made across the pad which intersect one another' in the center, as lines CZ-d, e-e, f-f and g-g. It will thus be seen that the rectangular pad may be severed between any two parallel lines of stitching so as to conform to the angle of the step upon which the pad is to be used, and the rectangular-shaped pad will be by this severance divided into two mitered pads of the same size and angle.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. As a new article of manufacture, a mitered stair pad constructed of a fabric covering filled with a soft yielding material, one edge of which is narrower than the other.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a pad rectangular in form and which is provided with one or more double lines of stitching across its center, so located that when the rectangular pad is severed between the lines of stitching it will be dividedinto two mitered pads of the same size and shape.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a continuous strip of padding suitable to be used for stair pads, divided by transverse double lines of stitching into rectangular-shaped pads each of which is provided with one or more double lines of stitching across its center, so located that when the rectangular piece is divided between the double lines of stitching the pad will be divided into two mitered pads of the same size and shape, substantially as described.

Signed at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, this 20th day of January, A. D. 1893.

IsIDoRE LOWENTHAL, T. E. MCCREADY. 

